Category: Insights

2 Corinthians 5:9-10 (NKJV)Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

9 そういうわけで、肉体の中にあろうと、肉体を離れていようと、私たちの念願とするところは、主に喜ばれることです。

10 なぜなら、私たちはみな、キリストのさばきの座に現れて、善であれ悪であれ、各自その肉体にあってした行為に応じて報いを受けることになるからです。

2 Corinthians 5:15 (NKJV Strong’s,)
and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 (NKJV Strong’s,)So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 (NKJV Strong’s,)But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

2 Corinthians 3:17 (NKJV Strong’s,)Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

主は御霊です。そして、主の御霊のあるところには自由があります。

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love.

Romans 5:5 (GWT)We’re not ashamed to have this confidence, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Romans 5:1-2 (GWT)Now that we have God’s approval by faith, we have peace with God because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done. Through Christ we can approach God and stand in his favor. So we brag because of our confidence that we will receive glory from God.

Romans 4:3 (GWT) 

What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and that faith was regarded as the basis of Abraham’s approval by God.”

The only way to get approval from God and to be His child is faith. It is the start, but we are to live by faith as well. 

2 Corinthians 5:7 (GWT)

Indeed, our lives are guided by faith, not by sight.

Romans 2:5-8 (GWTransl)Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair. He will pay all people back for what they have done. He will give everlasting life to those who search for glory, honor, and immortality by persisting in doing what is good. But he will bring anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.

Judgment day is coming. It’s time to get in His grace so we don’t have to be eternally damned in His judgment for a wrong decision.  It continues. 

Romans 2:9-11 (GWTransl)

There will be suffering and distress for every person who does evil, for Jews first and Greeks as well. But there will be glory, honor, and peace for every person who does what is good, for Jews first and Greeks as well. God does not play favorites.